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As the situation plays out in court, Bonamici said she’s using every tool at her disposal to protect Job Corps — whether it’s questioning Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer or signing onto a letter of support for the program with nearly 200 other Democrat and Republican colleagues.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, ranking member of the subcommittee, said that “without bold and sustained federal investment, child care costs will continue to rise and the workforce that provides the care will continue to struggle.”
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici agreed.
“The American people deserve to have their representatives play their proper role in our constitutional government, especially involving a decision of such enormous gravity,” Bonamici said.
While Republicans have said the cuts are part of an effort to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse and making sure able-bodied adults are working if they’re on Medicaid, they’re really about tax cuts for the rich, Bonamici said.
Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici heard from hospital leaders during a roundtable discussion on Wednesday, including representatives from Oregon Health & Science University, Legacy Health, and Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria.
ICE arrests and big tech layoffs were just two of the topics discussed at Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici’s town hall in Hillsboro on Tuesday.
Hundreds of people packed into Raymond Arthur Brown Middle School to ask Bonamici questions about numerous topics and hoping to make sense of what is going on at the federal level.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.), one of the lead authors of the letter, sees the administration’s attack on the bureau as “turning back the clock in ways that are really pretty outrageous,” she told me by phone on Monday. The Women’s Bureau, she added, is “just as important [now] as it ever was.”
For those who have found their path to success through Job Corps and others who will need that path in the future, let’s tell the Labor Department that we care about every student, and let’s save Job Corps.
The letter also notes the EEOC moved to dismiss six cases the agency had previously pursued against employers accused of gender identity discrimination, including EEOC v Boxwood Hotels, a lawsuit in which the employer is alleged to have fired